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Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1863-10-27

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i I ) ft JfrJ A .A. AAJL. ftwf :JU' tlll'HU Mil -vr i : L hm nil 11 n vi v m ix. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1863- NO 52 V MOUNT VERNON Ulil'l BLICAN. T E RMS: For diic year (invariably in aclvaticc)S2,00 l or six uomm, , TKRMS OF AIlVKllTiaiXO. ()nc square, 8 weeks, One square. 3 months, One square, 0 umiiths, One Square, 1 year, " One s(are (changeable monthly) Changeable weekly. Two squares, 3 weeks, Two squares, 0 weeks, Two squares, 3 months, ' Two squares, G months, Two squares, 1 year, Three squares, 8 weeks, Three squares, 0 weeks, Three squares, 3 months, Three squares. ( months, 1'hree sitiares, 1 year. One-fourth column, cban. quarterly One-third ' One-half " One column, changeable quarterly, 1,00 1,00 3,00 4,51) (i.OO 10.00 15,00 1.75 8,25 5,25 (i.75 8,00 2.50 4.50 (i.OO K.I 10 10,00 15.00 22.00 2S.00 50,00 Select poetry PRIDE. 11Y J. . 8AXE. 'Tin a curious fact us ever was known In humati nature, but often shown Alike in eastle and co'tagc. That pride, like figs of a certain breed, A V ill manage to live and thrivoou 'feed," .' As our as a pauper's pottage. Of all the notable things on earth, The queerest one is pride of birth, Among our "fierce demo-racy!" A bridge across a hundred yean, Without a prop to save it from sneers Not even a couple of rotten Peers A thing for laughter, sneers, and jeers, Is American aristocracy ! Pcpend upon it my snobbish friend, Your family thread you can't ascend, Without good reason toappichend You may find it waxed at the farther end By some plebcaa vocation! Or worse than that, your boasted line May end in a loop of stronger twine. That plagued a worthy relation! 3lecau.se you flourish in worldly affairs, Don't be haughty and pnto:i airs, With inswluit pride ot station? IVill't be proud inn! turn up your nose, At poorer people in plainer clot! es, lint learn for thesake of your minds rcpo.-c That wealth's i bubble that comes-aiid goes And that all proud flesh, wherever it grows, Is subject to irritation. YoT the Ainurionn M.suennr. The Hospitals or St. Louis. Pew are aware of the large number ol sick in about St. Louis. It is estimated that there are some 10,000 now. and 2,000 moro comtng this week. This isthe great point for sending the sick from (Jen. Grant' arnip below. Jefferson Barracks, twelve miles below the city, with twelve buildings some of them GOO or 700 feet long, have now 2,000 patients. Their physical comfort is well provide ! for, as it is in all the other hospitals. Not so with their spiritual necessities. The labors of two chap. lains, aud one lady who gives her entire attention to these sick men, are totally inadequate to meet this great duty. Twenty ministers could find all they could do to luiuister to these sick and dying men. To supply this lack of ministerial service, we have uudertaken to form a w.-.rd library for each of these twelve hospi'al buildings in and about St. Louis. Some thousands of volumes have been granted by the Tract Society; and given by churches for this purpose; but the work is by uo menus completed, and many Loses of books Tire yet needed. Who will aid? Six months since wo asked this question through tho pipers, and Btatjd the necessity; but except by personal application to individual churches, no response has come. The soldiers highly appreciate this effort for their benefit. Chaplains and nurses who attcud to the sick rejoice in this new power to benefit the men and usofully fill up their wcari-bome days of convalescence. Surgeons in charge say the religious reading, wisely distributed, is among the lest ttint'tiiry stores provided for these men, but for which govcriiaient makes no tir.ivUii.n Tl.-.. .i ii provision. 1 he meu say they would iro deranged, if reading matter was not pro " vided. But (ho best of all is, that God is Using it as an instrument of great spiritual good. These soldiers represent nil (he wci-tern and north-western stutes. Arc there not friends who will come and give us their personal labors? If they cannot come, will they not send (Honey and good books to help fill up theso ward libraries, and furnish them with good papers at least ones a month? Letter addressed (o Rev. S. Wells No 0 South flfth-strcet, St. Louis, Mo., will t-.eii i .. ... . . i. i nc Dore irom ine Ohio State Journal le carefully attended to add the desire ofig thougllt by gome tQ Iicab,ee -.a loji.Bj uui-. ueoum oarracks na mote patictits (ban Jefferson barracks; even tlio chapel, where wo have been uble tj preach to a thousand men comfortably lias to be given up fur the sick, and reading and porsunal labor will be the main dependence for these hundreds and thousands oi sick and dying men, S. Wku.s. PROCLAMATION BY THE DENT. PIIESI- 300,000 More Volunteer Called for to Serve lor Three Years or During the War Provost Marshals to Pav Premium and Rount) ADraft to he Made In Ever) State lor the Deficient in its Ouota on the 5tii of JaiiHary, 18(54. ... j Wasminotox. Oct. 17.-The following proclamation has been is- j by the President: j BY THK "'KKSIDKSTOF Til K li.N'I'l'KD STATKS i A PROCLAMATION. Wiikiikas, the term of .service of part of the volunteer forces of the United States will expire during the coming year: And whereas, in addition to the men raised by the present draft, it is deemed expedient to call out 300,000 vo'uuteers to serve for thfee years or during the war; uot, how" ever, exceeding three years. Now therefore, I Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States andCommander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into active service, do issuo this, my proclamation; calling upon the (governors ol the tlihVreut States to raise and have enlisted into the United States service, for the Various companies; and regiment.-' in the field, from their re-j spoctio states, their quotas of 3.10,000 1 men. I further proclaim that a!l the volun-1 tcers that come out and vrc duly enlisted j shall receive pay, premium and bounty, ! as heretofore communicated to the (joy-1 ernors of the States by the War Popart-; meiit through the Provost Marshal Gen-j eral's Office, by special letter. I I further proclaim that all volunteers! received under this call, as well as all others not heretofore credited, shall be duly credited aud deducted from the quotas established for the new draft. I further proclaim if any State shall fail to raise the quota assigned to it by j the War Department, made under this call then a dralt for the deficiency in said quo ta .shall be ma le in said State, or in the districts ot said State, for the due proportion of said quota, and the said draft shall commence ou the fifth day of January 1-61. I further proclaim, that nothing in this proclation shall interfere with existing orders, or with those which may be issued for the present draft, in the States where it is in progress, or where it lias not yet been commenced. The quotas of the States and district will be assigned by theVarDopartuiciit,lhTough the Provost -Marshal's office, cjue regard being had for the men heretofore furnished, whether by volunteering and the recruiting will be conducted in accordance with such instructions as have been or may bo issued by that Pepariiuont- Jy issuing this Pivielaination I address mysolf not only to the Governors of the several States, but to the good and loyal people thereof, invoking them to lend their cheerful and effective) aid to the measures thus adopted, with a view to ro enforce our victorious armies now iu the field, acd bring our military operations to a prosper ous end, thus closing forever the fountaius of sedition and civil war. In witness whereof 1 have hereunto sot my band and caused tho seal of the United States to be ofBxcd. Done at the city of Washington, this seventeenth day of October, A. 1). eighteen hundred and sixty- three, and of tho independence of the Uuitcd States the eighty-eighth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President: W. II. Seward, Secretary of State. Dol ng the Mean ThiFs. If there is ever any mean thing "laying around loose tor anybody to take hold of Sunset Cox is sure to be the man to "ira-tirove (be occasion." We understimd tlm. he now dories that he votedfur Vallaudij. j'""" - I'crliaps his denial may be the truth a,ud; H H1"8"8 h,im th 'bencfit of l'c doubt, he may be exonerated from the I .., i.:,. .. r... v..n .. i: . I iut-.u uuamiiM i-i vuviULI HUT t It 1 11111(1 tlJI 111 i, . . . ... ; . ... " But, bad as that was, there is still a mean er act than (hat. Aud if that "great old Sunset" was not guilty of the mean act of voting for Val-laudigham, he was then guilty of the meaner act of enticing the people to vole for the man whom he himself refuted to vote fori Now, "Mr. Sunset Cox" may take his choice of these mean things. And as it is usual for him to take the meanest as most congenial, we presume of course that he will embrace (he latter; and wil! soon swear (hat he did not vote for the man for whom be electioneered from every stump until he became so hoarse that it was exceedingly difficult for him to peak the truth ! lJtitudc as Well as to Columbus. Gen. ltosecraus' Congratulatory 0r dir. IIkad-qcartf.rs Pepartmf.xt of TIIU Cu.MBKRXANII, CllATT ANOIK1A, October 2, 1SG3. ) onDKRS NO. 3. Army of the Cumberland: You have made a grand and sueecsssful campaign; you have driven the rebels from Middle Tenncscee. You crossed a groat mountain range, placed yourselves ou the banks of a broad river, crossed it in the faco of o powerful opposing army, and crossed two other great mouutaiii ranges at the only practicable passes, some forty miles between extremes. You concentra ted in the face of superior numbers; fought the combined armies of Bragg, which you drove from Shclbyville ta Tiillahunia, of Johnston's army from Mississippi, and the' tried cterans of Longsireot.s corps, audi for two days held them at bay, giving them blow for blow, with heavy interest. When the day closed, you held the field, from which you withdrew in the face of overpowering u umbers, to occupy the point for which you set out Chattanooga. You have accomplished the great work of the campaign; you hold the key of j hast 'Leiinessee, of Northern Georgia, and of the enemy's mines of coal aud nitre. Let these achievements console you for the regret you experience that arrivals of fresh hostile troops forbade your rciuaiu-ing on the field to renew tie battle; for the right of burying your gallant dead, and earing for your brave companions who lay wounded ou the field. The losses you have sustained, though heavy, are slight considering the odds against you, and the stake you have won. Y'ou hold in your hands the substantial fruits of a victory, and deserve, and will receive, the honors andplauditsnf a grateful union, which asks nothing of even those who have been fighting us, but obc-j dience to the Constitution and laws estab. 1 lisbed for our own ouimou benefit. The General Commanding earnestly' begs every officer and soldier of this ar-l my to unite with him in thanking Almighty God for liis favors to us. He presents his hearty thanks and congratulations to all the officers and soldiers , of this coiunand for their energy, patieuco and . perseverance, and the undaunted courage displayed by those who fought with such unflinching resolution. Neither the hi.-tojy of this war, nor probably the annals of any battle tarnish a loftier example of obstinate bravery ami enduring resistance to superior numbers when troops, having exhausted their ammunition, resorted to the bayonet, many times; to hold their positions, against such odds as did our left and centre, comprising troops from all the corps, on tho afternoon of the 20th of September, at the battle of Cbickamauga. (Sigtied), W. S. BOSKCltANS, Maj-Geu Commanding. Corrcsf ondt'Dco uf the Ohio State Journal- Uc Sharpshooters no Cowards. Chattanooga, Sept. 23, 1803. In viewiutrall tho dill'erent forces which entered the battle-field on Saturday, we never have witnessed any corps ot troops enter danger with as litle fear as the 1st Ohio Sharpshooters. The battalion under command of Capt- G. M. Barber arrived at a pass just at tho fiercest fight ensued, about 2 o'ekek At this pass there was more confusion aud bustle than at uuy other point, aud more calculated to excite and confuse uew troops. Wagons were hurrying through, ambulances driving at full speed, artillury dashing through at fearful rate, and shells bursting over their heads; yet, amid all this, the Sharpshooters were as cool and rescued as if no danger thrcatned. Tho officers and men of tho battalion deserve great praise for the cool and deliberate manner in which they conducted themselves while under fire, and while on retreat; thus causing many other regiment who were excited and much cut up by the enemy, seeing their coolness, to lay aside all fear and retreat in good order; and without a doubt preventing a stampede, which must necessarily have occurred, had uot the coolness of tho Sharpshooter prevented it. E.W.S. Think or the Future! Imagine a venerable old Copperhead, when this war is ovor and (' ese stirring times are forgotten, sitting at his home with his children around him. He may tell them of tho wars, and the sacrifices men made and how the people rejoiced when the news of victory camo from the army. What will he Bay of his own part in that struggle? "Myclildren, iu that sad time, when the country was in danger, I was against my country my heart was with the rebel; when he triumphed I was glad when he was defeated my heart was sore and heavy. My children when 1 am gone, do not curse the traitor, Be silent. It is the only respect you can pay to your father's memory " The above was handed nsby a Merchant of our city. He picked it up in a street in New York City. It is applicable to Biaov a man in thin latitude. Anecdote orticu. Little. In a recent speech at the Ohio Convention of war democrats, Col. lturke relatud the following anocJote of the brave Geo. Lyttle, who was killed at the late buttle of Chattanooga: ''Au officer of high rank from another State, during a conversation on Ohio poli-tics, remarked that the democrats of Ohio ought to elect Yullaiidigbutn and that if they did not, they would not be true to the democratic parly. The brave Lyttle instantly sprang to his feet, und with that flash of his eye we all so well remember, replied, '-Sir, I am an Ohio dem crat my comrades here are Ohioans you must retract what you have said, or fight me before twelve o'clock." (Sensation aud loud cheers." The rebel leaders themselves declared to foreign Governments that Slavery fur nished no just cause ot Secession. This acquitted toe North ot all hlame, fur no other pretext was ever thought of. Bui tho Secessionists made Slavery the means of rebellion, and by that they involved it in tho fate of war, just as any other means that are used to maku war are subject to the fate of war. They set up their ultimatum that Slavery must have absolute control of the liovci'tiujcnt, or it should not exist, i hus i it declared itself at war with popular government. It has made the issue, uud of course the issuo will be fatal to Slavery, for popular government is not going to die in this nation. Through whatever struggles it has to be established, the supremacy of the people will be maintained, and if any compromise short of that were possible, it would not. be peace. There can be no peace until tho right of the peo pie to govern this whole uatiou is established.Slavery is a state of war with mankind. Iu the local Governments it is absolute,1 aud it unites them all by a despotic bond. Were this; hostile interest destroyed, there is no other that could so unite a great section of the nation iu support of the des perate determination ot a party to retaiu office in spite of the popular election. On none of the other great questions that have been agitated by parties iu this couutry has lb-; South ever been unite 1, although the disunion agitators have always tried to give every question a sectional turn. If this interest, which has now openly declared war, not only against national integrity, but against all popular Government, were subjected to the just fate of its own war and crushed, there would be nothing left that would ever dare to dispute the verdict i ol tho popular elections, nor anything that , -i, i': , e . . ,., . . . . to the t; ii ion. is ono of present sclf-coulu interfere- in the course- of this lie- . , 1 public to greatness and power abroad, P"11"'1 them, as has been amply I'ouuded ou popular liberty and the unques-1 demonstrated by the attrocities perpetrated tioned sovereignty oi tlio people. CW-ih- lutti Gazette. Moral and Religious Influences upon the Eleetion. The political influence upon the mass of: the Peinocratic party has neeu oftho most incendiary charac vr. The leaders of the party have sought to play upou the impul sive nature of the race which constitutes the rauk uud file of the party, to excite it to vit.ence, while tl cv did not intend to incur any risk. But the icligious influence upon this portion of our population, has been salutary and peaceable It has coun-tcracted the infamous designs of the political leaders. To this religious influence the people of Cincinnati are greatly indebt ed for the perscrvation of the peace of this city, and for an eleetion conducted in a manner honorable to the character cf the people. Cincinnati (Ja;tlle Hang the Slavery Question. "Hang the slavery question! I'm disgus ted with it. Let us ignore it and put down tho rebellion. llearkcu oh, Solomon, to your brother, who is even uow running through the streets yelling at the top of his voice: "My house is burning up! Don't notice the fire at all, for I'm disgusted with it. Let us ignoro the fire and put out the conflagration! We can ignore the lire and cxiin'uish the flames just as easily as we can ignore slavery and put down tne rebellion- hy, the rebel lion is to slavery what a cough is to con sumption; only its legitimate maniles tation. We caunot avoid the slavery question; we must either settle it, or it will settle us most effectually, for ever. Aashuiue union. The Election the Result. Our returns from the State are givon in our telegraph coumn as we received theui. The result is so decided that we have not though it worth while to put them into tabular shape this morning. Ihcmajori ty for Bitouoit on tho home vote will ex ceed 53'000, and may reach 70,000 The soldiers, vote will swell Brough's majority to 100,000 or over. 1 he Legislature will be Union by an overwhelming majority. Tho Union men have carried nearly every cminty in the State, thus eocuring nearly all iheoiuces. the Copperheads are be feated utterly. They ore crushed. The people have ppewed them out of their mouths. Cin. Gazette. IOWA. Thisglorious little State etauds erect. She spoke yesterday, and proves true to her past history. She decides for the Union by an emphatic ypte. She repudiates ah traitors and rebel sympathizes, und with her sister States of the North prouontices in favor of a vigorous prosecution of the wr, of the crushing of the rebellioc, and et the humiliation of Copperbeadr. Ohio f ends greeting to Ioi. FREEDOM CONVENTION OF THE SLAVES STATES. To the Friends or Freedom In thc Slave-Holding States. The war which hs now existed for near three years, taxing 11 the Htrength and devotion of the loyal people of the republic to suppress the rebellion, has developed no fact more striking than tho necessity of assimilating all reoccupicd territory before peace can be reposed upon. The intrinsic hostility botween communities dif fering so widely in their social structure reappears constantly in (bo rear of our conquests with more virulence, from the temporary depressions inflicted. Assimilation, and with it permanent peace, can only take place upon tho doing away with that institution upon which the rebellion is predicated, arid from which it derives all of its sympathy and encouragement in the loyal States Nowhere are there now seen cither man or parties embarrassing the prosecution of the war who do not connect therewith nn open hostility to all measures that tend t relieve the country of the slave system. To suppress by force this rebellion, therefore, if such a course were much more practicable than it has been found to be, and leave the cause untouched to breed other rebellions, and enkindle hereafter constant animosities ready, as the present has done, to appeal for solution to the arbitrament of civil war, would be national suicide. Its effect upon tho several States would be even more disastrous, antigonizing them against each other necessarily from the presence of that ir. stitution, around which would cling so many memories of a past conflict and laying waste their fields, depopulating their villages, making all tenures of life aud property utterly iuseeure in the subsequent strife for supremacy that would result between different classes of the community. Ileuce it is that an insistance upon freedom policies, both national and State, presents itself us the supremest duty of the hour a duty uot to be subordinated to any theory of the past or any hesitancy of the present. Indeed, the making of such an issue in the reconquered territory, aud h, those slave States which have adhered hikIoi tho nuuio of guerrilla warfare throughout Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, Maryland and Kentucky, and demands a promptitude of action coincident with the distress cutailed by (bo mere existence of a slave system m our midst. Chaugcs ; otherdays and for other reasons, might well have asumed a gradual character, now find iu the perils of the times no excuse for delay, but every incitement to au immediate corrective. To insure, however, the requisite unity and support to the friends of freedom iu the slave States, it is primarily essential that the General Government should adopt, in its civil, no less than its military administration, a line of action thaf wil! recognize, so far as may be authorized, freedom to be the true basis of loyalty, aud give to tho commnities involved sufficient guarantees that there will be no rctroges-sion in the future; but, on the contrary, an effective carrying out of the principles embodied in the civil code uudcr tho confiscation act, aud in the military direction by the proclamation of January 1st, 1663. This is uecessary because few will be disposed to engage in the work of effecting those changes needed for any thorough assimilation or any positive uprooting of Slavery, if they are to be left unsupported to reap their reward from the slave power, reinstated as dominant in either States or nation. Hut it is to be remarked in this connection, that the General Goverumeut has assumed the attitude of awaiting a full and further signification of the popular thought, and this can only be elicited by the friends of freedom throughout the slave Stutes making such appeal to the people oftho nation as will rivet their at-teutiou upou tho greatdaiigersimpeuding, arouso them to manifestions of sympathy with the cause of human liberty, and leave no room for any doubt as to the course that should bo pursued by rulers solicitous to reflect their will. For Jhe(se reasons; for the promotion of a more cordial understanding betweeu those Who eoncur in the necessity of adopt- ing freedom policies; for the more effective initiation of local State organizations to accomplish the work of emancipation; and for such mutual interchange ofopmioosand experiences as may make tho teachings of the past profit in the guidance of the present, an invitation is hereby extended to the friends of freedom residing in all the slave Stutes, to meet in mass convention at the city of Louisville, Kchtucky, on the 8th day of January next coming. Those favorable to such assemblages are requested to take measures in tbeir respective district's for an ttindaac8 that will teeure tkew reprcretifafien. Newspapers apuroving this mill nru ic quested to give it circubiiiou. Respectfully submit'oW, H. Gnti Broo, Fred Mi'i neh, H. T. Blow. J. W. Mcl'lnr.,, Entile BoiotiuUi, S H V-yl I'.eh. l.o.ili. ('. I!. -, S..uf K. J;,Ih... !.-:,. of M.oiii i. Ftwn th Nfw IV k Tim"f ih II h. I Gcu McClellan and thePeui.syhau'a! Election. ! Ceii. McClellan, who was so" slow in tbei military field, is rather faster iu the political. We have at last a da,sh fr.io Inu - a regular slAp-dash. At hi retreat in N' v Jersey, ho learns iroiti a '-reliable genii,- man" that there is danger thai the Copper- j head line will not come ui to the neralcb: aud ho no sooner hears .Ml ihau besnced. i a, he never -net before, to the" t cue. The li''liluiii could vv' outstrip him; or, if it did. it was oiilv lo c.irrv llo. i im;ni4-;; luai vieu. ;ueiKuau whs ohj 24 , Ilt'iC heliinu, ami that ' lie K-gaius tliej t,!fiti,ill nt .liiil.'n Witi.ilu- ir.l ,U 1 1 f It .-rill r .. i-i Mii-i i ' ol (Jukaiuauga, lor I do uot fear the is-ol Pennsylvania, to be called tor by tlu-j ,. .,, , , , . . ... ., .-, 1 " -dy great regret will he th break- interoiUol the nation, lliu tidimrs'. ; , , . . . ,,..,,,,.. , " 1 1 g uu ot tli glonoan associations formed ruached Philadelphia jast iio the sun was ' . , .... ... , ,. , , , .. , ,, .,, ,. I iiliei' so long scmee in the Army ol the descending beyond the Schuylkill, ihir , , , , , . . ,. ,, , , , .ii ! Cumberland, auu the Lidding farewell (o cell hours and three quarters by the li.X I ,. ... , , . ,. . , ... , 1 ' , . , 1 1 to gallant ouiui-rs and soiuiers of this watches, betore the op-suing of the fuht 1 The shades of uight, wo understuu J, were i . ,. , on will have new Corps and division used to the best purpose, in workiug the . 1 ,- . ,, , ' ci.iiim-iii'Jers; to tlicm, us you have at all uirt. lhe engaj' snieut commcm-ed with 1 . . sunrise uud lasted through the day, with tHrrililo rfTiM-t w li,--ir ni.ii flu. l,lliiu,-i-, 1 ' ,. i , ,.7 , , ,, , . ' of Judge oodword. lhcv are routed. II : is said, horse, foot and ilr.igoon. Gen. McClellan, it is expected, will reach th. field in person to-morrow. It is,indeed, somewhat singul ar that Gen McClellan, who has been sostoieul regard ing bis military credit, should be so exceedingly sensitive ''oueerniug his political repute. He submits uuiiioVeJ to tin? sevsreut, uud. if we are to believe liislK in'. the talsest statemeiitsroucerniiig li s military career, without making a sign: vH it is uo sooner given out that he is in favr uf the re-election of a Governor who is a friend of the Adiuinisiralion, than he is off like a shot lo pm d wu the lie. ft would seem that the General can stand any tiling but the suspicion that he has parted com-puny with the Copperheads. It is n-.i,i-fciitly ii n object of prime Concern with him to keep himself identified, as ii.iniili.ifh as possible, un lliemeu wlioareitot war , ring against the rebels, put quarrelling' WaMUVHon, Oct. IS llie following with theconstitutedauthnrititisot'thcG.iw jiacopy of u letler froth Mr. Masou to eminent. Of all the score or two of Maj r j J'H Pavi., and was found among the in-Gcncrals of the United States, in sen ice. i teicepted t orrefpoiideiico of the latter It there probably is not another one, whoi 1 plainly .-hows the treasonable purpose of whatever his former politic! associations, ! the writer at 'he time : would have treated as a slan lei to be pub liely repelled, a story that he was for sua taining the Executive which giiTehitn hi commission. Major-Gen. McClellan has this pecular distinction. Whether it be owing to resentment at his displacement from the command of tho Army of the' ready agreed to tho rendetvous at Ral-Potomac, or to an ambiii in of being made ' igb, and others will whisper this iu your as has been talked of,au Auti-Adm ui-dra-! most private ear. lion caudidate for the Presidency .wo shall I Uo ays further that he had officially offer uo conjecture. But we do say that j requested you to exchange with Virginia it is not conduct which would become a ! on fair It run of difference, percussion fer truo soldier iu his his peculiar posiiiou. j lliot muskets. I don't kuow the usage or M ,,, I poer of the Department iu euch cates, Vallandlgham's General Order l On tne Ueieal. UEMORATS OF Onio: You hac Liiu beaten by what means it is idle now to iuquire. It it enough that wbil tens et thousands of soldiers were scut or kept within your State, or held inactive in camp elsewhere, lo vote against you, the Con federate enemy were marching upon the capital of your count, y. You were beaton; but a nobler fiht foi constitutional liberty and free poj. ular gov crnment never was fought b. any people And your uncouquerable firmucss aud courage, even in the midst of armed military force, secured you thesejtirt of human righ(s free speech und free (mlhii. The conspiracy of the full of May ti ll be fore you Be uot discouraged; dt-pair not of the Republic, Maiutaiu your rights; stand firm to your position; ucvu yuld up ymir principles or your organization. Listen uot to any w ho would bav- you lower your standard in tho hour oi defeat. No mellowim.' ol'vour ritiiii'm.s upon auy question, even of poky, will avail anything to conciliate your pnlitical foes. They demand nothing than an absolute surrender ot your principles and your organiiation. Moreover, if there be any hope for the Constitution or liberty, it is ID the Pemocratie party alorte; and your fellow citizeus, in a little while longer wil see it. Time and events will force it tporl all, except those onlv who nrofit bv the calamities of their countiy. I thank you, one and all, for Tour itov pathlti and your euffrsgej. Be assured that though still in exile for no offense but my politic! opinions and the free ex- preseioa of them to yon in peaeetble ahlia assembly, you will find Bio er steadfast m turn or-miens, soj true to the ConMi- t lion and to the Stale aud country of my ' I -it Wi. - - ; f. 1. VaLLANUOH ANf . U i.i,uii, C. W. (to. 11, '03. Hijor-lifu. tfrVouk'a farttdltoihe TfffAtl' ih Army Carps, I.' pon t:4liii leave of the 2im.Ii Army i.'i.rp-. M.tj.-i (i.-io-rul McCook addrassed lio-tii Hi follows; Hi athju's 2Ttii Army Com-, ( ( HAnA.sooiiA, Tknn., Oct. (5, f G KM. HAL OK PER NO. 32. OJfictr (ivl SoiJiiri of the 'J-Qth Army Cttrpt: Au order will soon reach yoia roiiBolidt-ling your gallmit rcgimenis, brigades and divisions with the "1st Corps With that . rder I am rolirvcd from commuud iu this Jirul',l-"i nt IuoWp. llld""ia tKtfe tuWir Ufure 8 C0Urt T inquii j. After being relieved from command, I ' couul ask; no orraic-r lutor ol the ar Dt' , . , ... ; p. inn. mi uiaa a iiiorougu investigation OI 1 my (."loiuul during the two memorable days wines tu loo, yiuul obedience. Uive tucm id'.ihioual vvidkuieof viur discspline, ce.-l and patriotism iu our cause; Btufncver lay 1 ......... down your arms mini this unho.y febeliioli is i riisbi d, the I'uion peimaneutly restored an,', u ea.'f- secured thut will allow you to return to your homes aud firesides. You have beeu slandered and maligned by news scribblers, who, unfortunate, in our country; nioul ! the public mind. Offi-i cial uports will do you justice before the world. j I iti.it ii my thanks to every officer and soldier of t'C eorpi, for his gallantry in I action and his beany co-operation and de-toiii.n to ,iuiy. nil this I leave you. and my earnest prayer ev.ir shall be, that God way prosper you as a corps, and as individuals, and ever give you victory vhou struggling lor your n.iiion and glorious flag. A. Del). Mi-m.'ihik, Maj.-Oeu. )lus u to Davis in 1S50. Sh.m.,Va.. nkau WisciirsTrn, 1 September 30, 18G0. j My Ihor Sir : 1 have a letter from ( iov. WUe of the 27th, full of spirit. He says the Governors of North Carolina, South Carolina, aud Louisiana hare al- ful 11 " "V6 evcu y ei con- Miiirimn, uq'timi jauwnt bcvbub. Was dure uotim appropriation at the 1 1st. Kcsion tor converting flint into por oussiou anus.' if so, would it not furnish good reason for extending such facilities to the Ctaies. Virginia probxb'y has more firms thj the oiher Southern States, snd would divide iu case of ueed. In a letter yesterday to a cjmmittce in South l'tti'ol;na, I gave it as my judgment, iu the event of Irenieut's election, the South bbould not pause hut proceed at once to immediate, absolute and eternal eparulion, so I urn a caudidate for the first hi Iter. Wisu says his accounts from Philadelphia are cheering for Old Buck in Pennsylvania. I hope tbey may uot be delusive. (Si'ued;, J.M.MASON. (.Old. A m m who !s furnitbed frith argument f.om 1 ho mint will vouvince his antagonist much sootier that cus ho draws them from, reason and philosophy. Gold is 1 wouderlul clearer d' th understanding ii d alt- every doubt aud n-ruple iu au ius'atit, a- C 'liimcHiaies itself lo tlio mean-Oct capacituv. eiiuueunes, the loud and cluuiirru'. and brings over the most obstiuHie nj inflexible. l'Lilip of Macedou wi a mao of most iuvincible reason this wuy. He refuted by it all the wisilom of Athens, confounded their statesmen, struct their tirstors dumb, and at length jirguoJ thctti out of all their liberties. " -- . ... - Borrne, s german writer c bmperes the different stages in (he lives of woman to milk butter snd cheese. 'A girl,' he says 'is like milk, s wnaieu like hotter, tod sa aU ..... la. -v -11 .1-- . . excellent in their war., ' . .: ' j. 1 tnTn'W r

i I ) ft JfrJ A .A. AAJL. ftwf :JU' tlll'HU Mil -vr i : L hm nil 11 n vi v m ix. MOUNT VERNON, OHIO TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1863- NO 52 V MOUNT VERNON Ulil'l BLICAN. T E RMS: For diic year (invariably in aclvaticc)S2,00 l or six uomm, , TKRMS OF AIlVKllTiaiXO. ()nc square, 8 weeks, One square. 3 months, One square, 0 umiiths, One Square, 1 year, " One s(are (changeable monthly) Changeable weekly. Two squares, 3 weeks, Two squares, 0 weeks, Two squares, 3 months, ' Two squares, G months, Two squares, 1 year, Three squares, 8 weeks, Three squares, 0 weeks, Three squares, 3 months, Three squares. ( months, 1'hree sitiares, 1 year. One-fourth column, cban. quarterly One-third ' One-half " One column, changeable quarterly, 1,00 1,00 3,00 4,51) (i.OO 10.00 15,00 1.75 8,25 5,25 (i.75 8,00 2.50 4.50 (i.OO K.I 10 10,00 15.00 22.00 2S.00 50,00 Select poetry PRIDE. 11Y J. . 8AXE. 'Tin a curious fact us ever was known In humati nature, but often shown Alike in eastle and co'tagc. That pride, like figs of a certain breed, A V ill manage to live and thrivoou 'feed," .' As our as a pauper's pottage. Of all the notable things on earth, The queerest one is pride of birth, Among our "fierce demo-racy!" A bridge across a hundred yean, Without a prop to save it from sneers Not even a couple of rotten Peers A thing for laughter, sneers, and jeers, Is American aristocracy ! Pcpend upon it my snobbish friend, Your family thread you can't ascend, Without good reason toappichend You may find it waxed at the farther end By some plebcaa vocation! Or worse than that, your boasted line May end in a loop of stronger twine. That plagued a worthy relation! 3lecau.se you flourish in worldly affairs, Don't be haughty and pnto:i airs, With inswluit pride ot station? IVill't be proud inn! turn up your nose, At poorer people in plainer clot! es, lint learn for thesake of your minds rcpo.-c That wealth's i bubble that comes-aiid goes And that all proud flesh, wherever it grows, Is subject to irritation. YoT the Ainurionn M.suennr. The Hospitals or St. Louis. Pew are aware of the large number ol sick in about St. Louis. It is estimated that there are some 10,000 now. and 2,000 moro comtng this week. This isthe great point for sending the sick from (Jen. Grant' arnip below. Jefferson Barracks, twelve miles below the city, with twelve buildings some of them GOO or 700 feet long, have now 2,000 patients. Their physical comfort is well provide ! for, as it is in all the other hospitals. Not so with their spiritual necessities. The labors of two chap. lains, aud one lady who gives her entire attention to these sick men, are totally inadequate to meet this great duty. Twenty ministers could find all they could do to luiuister to these sick and dying men. To supply this lack of ministerial service, we have uudertaken to form a w.-.rd library for each of these twelve hospi'al buildings in and about St. Louis. Some thousands of volumes have been granted by the Tract Society; and given by churches for this purpose; but the work is by uo menus completed, and many Loses of books Tire yet needed. Who will aid? Six months since wo asked this question through tho pipers, and Btatjd the necessity; but except by personal application to individual churches, no response has come. The soldiers highly appreciate this effort for their benefit. Chaplains and nurses who attcud to the sick rejoice in this new power to benefit the men and usofully fill up their wcari-bome days of convalescence. Surgeons in charge say the religious reading, wisely distributed, is among the lest ttint'tiiry stores provided for these men, but for which govcriiaient makes no tir.ivUii.n Tl.-.. .i ii provision. 1 he meu say they would iro deranged, if reading matter was not pro " vided. But (ho best of all is, that God is Using it as an instrument of great spiritual good. These soldiers represent nil (he wci-tern and north-western stutes. Arc there not friends who will come and give us their personal labors? If they cannot come, will they not send (Honey and good books to help fill up theso ward libraries, and furnish them with good papers at least ones a month? Letter addressed (o Rev. S. Wells No 0 South flfth-strcet, St. Louis, Mo., will t-.eii i .. ... . . i. i nc Dore irom ine Ohio State Journal le carefully attended to add the desire ofig thougllt by gome tQ Iicab,ee -.a loji.Bj uui-. ueoum oarracks na mote patictits (ban Jefferson barracks; even tlio chapel, where wo have been uble tj preach to a thousand men comfortably lias to be given up fur the sick, and reading and porsunal labor will be the main dependence for these hundreds and thousands oi sick and dying men, S. Wku.s. PROCLAMATION BY THE DENT. PIIESI- 300,000 More Volunteer Called for to Serve lor Three Years or During the War Provost Marshals to Pav Premium and Rount) ADraft to he Made In Ever) State lor the Deficient in its Ouota on the 5tii of JaiiHary, 18(54. ... j Wasminotox. Oct. 17.-The following proclamation has been is- j by the President: j BY THK "'KKSIDKSTOF Til K li.N'I'l'KD STATKS i A PROCLAMATION. Wiikiikas, the term of .service of part of the volunteer forces of the United States will expire during the coming year: And whereas, in addition to the men raised by the present draft, it is deemed expedient to call out 300,000 vo'uuteers to serve for thfee years or during the war; uot, how" ever, exceeding three years. Now therefore, I Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States andCommander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into active service, do issuo this, my proclamation; calling upon the (governors ol the tlihVreut States to raise and have enlisted into the United States service, for the Various companies; and regiment.-' in the field, from their re-j spoctio states, their quotas of 3.10,000 1 men. I further proclaim that a!l the volun-1 tcers that come out and vrc duly enlisted j shall receive pay, premium and bounty, ! as heretofore communicated to the (joy-1 ernors of the States by the War Popart-; meiit through the Provost Marshal Gen-j eral's Office, by special letter. I I further proclaim that all volunteers! received under this call, as well as all others not heretofore credited, shall be duly credited aud deducted from the quotas established for the new draft. I further proclaim if any State shall fail to raise the quota assigned to it by j the War Department, made under this call then a dralt for the deficiency in said quo ta .shall be ma le in said State, or in the districts ot said State, for the due proportion of said quota, and the said draft shall commence ou the fifth day of January 1-61. I further proclaim, that nothing in this proclation shall interfere with existing orders, or with those which may be issued for the present draft, in the States where it is in progress, or where it lias not yet been commenced. The quotas of the States and district will be assigned by theVarDopartuiciit,lhTough the Provost -Marshal's office, cjue regard being had for the men heretofore furnished, whether by volunteering and the recruiting will be conducted in accordance with such instructions as have been or may bo issued by that Pepariiuont- Jy issuing this Pivielaination I address mysolf not only to the Governors of the several States, but to the good and loyal people thereof, invoking them to lend their cheerful and effective) aid to the measures thus adopted, with a view to ro enforce our victorious armies now iu the field, acd bring our military operations to a prosper ous end, thus closing forever the fountaius of sedition and civil war. In witness whereof 1 have hereunto sot my band and caused tho seal of the United States to be ofBxcd. Done at the city of Washington, this seventeenth day of October, A. 1). eighteen hundred and sixty- three, and of tho independence of the Uuitcd States the eighty-eighth. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By the President: W. II. Seward, Secretary of State. Dol ng the Mean ThiFs. If there is ever any mean thing "laying around loose tor anybody to take hold of Sunset Cox is sure to be the man to "ira-tirove (be occasion." We understimd tlm. he now dories that he votedfur Vallaudij. j'""" - I'crliaps his denial may be the truth a,ud; H H1"8"8 h,im th 'bencfit of l'c doubt, he may be exonerated from the I .., i.:,. .. r... v..n .. i: . I iut-.u uuamiiM i-i vuviULI HUT t It 1 11111(1 tlJI 111 i, . . . ... ; . ... " But, bad as that was, there is still a mean er act than (hat. Aud if that "great old Sunset" was not guilty of the mean act of voting for Val-laudigham, he was then guilty of the meaner act of enticing the people to vole for the man whom he himself refuted to vote fori Now, "Mr. Sunset Cox" may take his choice of these mean things. And as it is usual for him to take the meanest as most congenial, we presume of course that he will embrace (he latter; and wil! soon swear (hat he did not vote for the man for whom be electioneered from every stump until he became so hoarse that it was exceedingly difficult for him to peak the truth ! lJtitudc as Well as to Columbus. Gen. ltosecraus' Congratulatory 0r dir. IIkad-qcartf.rs Pepartmf.xt of TIIU Cu.MBKRXANII, CllATT ANOIK1A, October 2, 1SG3. ) onDKRS NO. 3. Army of the Cumberland: You have made a grand and sueecsssful campaign; you have driven the rebels from Middle Tenncscee. You crossed a groat mountain range, placed yourselves ou the banks of a broad river, crossed it in the faco of o powerful opposing army, and crossed two other great mouutaiii ranges at the only practicable passes, some forty miles between extremes. You concentra ted in the face of superior numbers; fought the combined armies of Bragg, which you drove from Shclbyville ta Tiillahunia, of Johnston's army from Mississippi, and the' tried cterans of Longsireot.s corps, audi for two days held them at bay, giving them blow for blow, with heavy interest. When the day closed, you held the field, from which you withdrew in the face of overpowering u umbers, to occupy the point for which you set out Chattanooga. You have accomplished the great work of the campaign; you hold the key of j hast 'Leiinessee, of Northern Georgia, and of the enemy's mines of coal aud nitre. Let these achievements console you for the regret you experience that arrivals of fresh hostile troops forbade your rciuaiu-ing on the field to renew tie battle; for the right of burying your gallant dead, and earing for your brave companions who lay wounded ou the field. The losses you have sustained, though heavy, are slight considering the odds against you, and the stake you have won. Y'ou hold in your hands the substantial fruits of a victory, and deserve, and will receive, the honors andplauditsnf a grateful union, which asks nothing of even those who have been fighting us, but obc-j dience to the Constitution and laws estab. 1 lisbed for our own ouimou benefit. The General Commanding earnestly' begs every officer and soldier of this ar-l my to unite with him in thanking Almighty God for liis favors to us. He presents his hearty thanks and congratulations to all the officers and soldiers , of this coiunand for their energy, patieuco and . perseverance, and the undaunted courage displayed by those who fought with such unflinching resolution. Neither the hi.-tojy of this war, nor probably the annals of any battle tarnish a loftier example of obstinate bravery ami enduring resistance to superior numbers when troops, having exhausted their ammunition, resorted to the bayonet, many times; to hold their positions, against such odds as did our left and centre, comprising troops from all the corps, on tho afternoon of the 20th of September, at the battle of Cbickamauga. (Sigtied), W. S. BOSKCltANS, Maj-Geu Commanding. Corrcsf ondt'Dco uf the Ohio State Journal- Uc Sharpshooters no Cowards. Chattanooga, Sept. 23, 1803. In viewiutrall tho dill'erent forces which entered the battle-field on Saturday, we never have witnessed any corps ot troops enter danger with as litle fear as the 1st Ohio Sharpshooters. The battalion under command of Capt- G. M. Barber arrived at a pass just at tho fiercest fight ensued, about 2 o'ekek At this pass there was more confusion aud bustle than at uuy other point, aud more calculated to excite and confuse uew troops. Wagons were hurrying through, ambulances driving at full speed, artillury dashing through at fearful rate, and shells bursting over their heads; yet, amid all this, the Sharpshooters were as cool and rescued as if no danger thrcatned. Tho officers and men of tho battalion deserve great praise for the cool and deliberate manner in which they conducted themselves while under fire, and while on retreat; thus causing many other regiment who were excited and much cut up by the enemy, seeing their coolness, to lay aside all fear and retreat in good order; and without a doubt preventing a stampede, which must necessarily have occurred, had uot the coolness of tho Sharpshooter prevented it. E.W.S. Think or the Future! Imagine a venerable old Copperhead, when this war is ovor and (' ese stirring times are forgotten, sitting at his home with his children around him. He may tell them of tho wars, and the sacrifices men made and how the people rejoiced when the news of victory camo from the army. What will he Bay of his own part in that struggle? "Myclildren, iu that sad time, when the country was in danger, I was against my country my heart was with the rebel; when he triumphed I was glad when he was defeated my heart was sore and heavy. My children when 1 am gone, do not curse the traitor, Be silent. It is the only respect you can pay to your father's memory " The above was handed nsby a Merchant of our city. He picked it up in a street in New York City. It is applicable to Biaov a man in thin latitude. Anecdote orticu. Little. In a recent speech at the Ohio Convention of war democrats, Col. lturke relatud the following anocJote of the brave Geo. Lyttle, who was killed at the late buttle of Chattanooga: ''Au officer of high rank from another State, during a conversation on Ohio poli-tics, remarked that the democrats of Ohio ought to elect Yullaiidigbutn and that if they did not, they would not be true to the democratic parly. The brave Lyttle instantly sprang to his feet, und with that flash of his eye we all so well remember, replied, '-Sir, I am an Ohio dem crat my comrades here are Ohioans you must retract what you have said, or fight me before twelve o'clock." (Sensation aud loud cheers." The rebel leaders themselves declared to foreign Governments that Slavery fur nished no just cause ot Secession. This acquitted toe North ot all hlame, fur no other pretext was ever thought of. Bui tho Secessionists made Slavery the means of rebellion, and by that they involved it in tho fate of war, just as any other means that are used to maku war are subject to the fate of war. They set up their ultimatum that Slavery must have absolute control of the liovci'tiujcnt, or it should not exist, i hus i it declared itself at war with popular government. It has made the issue, uud of course the issuo will be fatal to Slavery, for popular government is not going to die in this nation. Through whatever struggles it has to be established, the supremacy of the people will be maintained, and if any compromise short of that were possible, it would not. be peace. There can be no peace until tho right of the peo pie to govern this whole uatiou is established.Slavery is a state of war with mankind. Iu the local Governments it is absolute,1 aud it unites them all by a despotic bond. Were this; hostile interest destroyed, there is no other that could so unite a great section of the nation iu support of the des perate determination ot a party to retaiu office in spite of the popular election. On none of the other great questions that have been agitated by parties iu this couutry has lb-; South ever been unite 1, although the disunion agitators have always tried to give every question a sectional turn. If this interest, which has now openly declared war, not only against national integrity, but against all popular Government, were subjected to the just fate of its own war and crushed, there would be nothing left that would ever dare to dispute the verdict i ol tho popular elections, nor anything that , -i, i': , e . . ,., . . . . to the t; ii ion. is ono of present sclf-coulu interfere- in the course- of this lie- . , 1 public to greatness and power abroad, P"11"'1 them, as has been amply I'ouuded ou popular liberty and the unques-1 demonstrated by the attrocities perpetrated tioned sovereignty oi tlio people. CW-ih- lutti Gazette. Moral and Religious Influences upon the Eleetion. The political influence upon the mass of: the Peinocratic party has neeu oftho most incendiary charac vr. The leaders of the party have sought to play upou the impul sive nature of the race which constitutes the rauk uud file of the party, to excite it to vit.ence, while tl cv did not intend to incur any risk. But the icligious influence upon this portion of our population, has been salutary and peaceable It has coun-tcracted the infamous designs of the political leaders. To this religious influence the people of Cincinnati are greatly indebt ed for the perscrvation of the peace of this city, and for an eleetion conducted in a manner honorable to the character cf the people. Cincinnati (Ja;tlle Hang the Slavery Question. "Hang the slavery question! I'm disgus ted with it. Let us ignore it and put down tho rebellion. llearkcu oh, Solomon, to your brother, who is even uow running through the streets yelling at the top of his voice: "My house is burning up! Don't notice the fire at all, for I'm disgusted with it. Let us ignoro the fire and put out the conflagration! We can ignore the lire and cxiin'uish the flames just as easily as we can ignore slavery and put down tne rebellion- hy, the rebel lion is to slavery what a cough is to con sumption; only its legitimate maniles tation. We caunot avoid the slavery question; we must either settle it, or it will settle us most effectually, for ever. Aashuiue union. The Election the Result. Our returns from the State are givon in our telegraph coumn as we received theui. The result is so decided that we have not though it worth while to put them into tabular shape this morning. Ihcmajori ty for Bitouoit on tho home vote will ex ceed 53'000, and may reach 70,000 The soldiers, vote will swell Brough's majority to 100,000 or over. 1 he Legislature will be Union by an overwhelming majority. Tho Union men have carried nearly every cminty in the State, thus eocuring nearly all iheoiuces. the Copperheads are be feated utterly. They ore crushed. The people have ppewed them out of their mouths. Cin. Gazette. IOWA. Thisglorious little State etauds erect. She spoke yesterday, and proves true to her past history. She decides for the Union by an emphatic ypte. She repudiates ah traitors and rebel sympathizes, und with her sister States of the North prouontices in favor of a vigorous prosecution of the wr, of the crushing of the rebellioc, and et the humiliation of Copperbeadr. Ohio f ends greeting to Ioi. FREEDOM CONVENTION OF THE SLAVES STATES. To the Friends or Freedom In thc Slave-Holding States. The war which hs now existed for near three years, taxing 11 the Htrength and devotion of the loyal people of the republic to suppress the rebellion, has developed no fact more striking than tho necessity of assimilating all reoccupicd territory before peace can be reposed upon. The intrinsic hostility botween communities dif fering so widely in their social structure reappears constantly in (bo rear of our conquests with more virulence, from the temporary depressions inflicted. Assimilation, and with it permanent peace, can only take place upon tho doing away with that institution upon which the rebellion is predicated, arid from which it derives all of its sympathy and encouragement in the loyal States Nowhere are there now seen cither man or parties embarrassing the prosecution of the war who do not connect therewith nn open hostility to all measures that tend t relieve the country of the slave system. To suppress by force this rebellion, therefore, if such a course were much more practicable than it has been found to be, and leave the cause untouched to breed other rebellions, and enkindle hereafter constant animosities ready, as the present has done, to appeal for solution to the arbitrament of civil war, would be national suicide. Its effect upon tho several States would be even more disastrous, antigonizing them against each other necessarily from the presence of that ir. stitution, around which would cling so many memories of a past conflict and laying waste their fields, depopulating their villages, making all tenures of life aud property utterly iuseeure in the subsequent strife for supremacy that would result between different classes of the community. Ileuce it is that an insistance upon freedom policies, both national and State, presents itself us the supremest duty of the hour a duty uot to be subordinated to any theory of the past or any hesitancy of the present. Indeed, the making of such an issue in the reconquered territory, aud h, those slave States which have adhered hikIoi tho nuuio of guerrilla warfare throughout Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, Maryland and Kentucky, and demands a promptitude of action coincident with the distress cutailed by (bo mere existence of a slave system m our midst. Chaugcs ; otherdays and for other reasons, might well have asumed a gradual character, now find iu the perils of the times no excuse for delay, but every incitement to au immediate corrective. To insure, however, the requisite unity and support to the friends of freedom iu the slave States, it is primarily essential that the General Government should adopt, in its civil, no less than its military administration, a line of action thaf wil! recognize, so far as may be authorized, freedom to be the true basis of loyalty, aud give to tho commnities involved sufficient guarantees that there will be no rctroges-sion in the future; but, on the contrary, an effective carrying out of the principles embodied in the civil code uudcr tho confiscation act, aud in the military direction by the proclamation of January 1st, 1663. This is uecessary because few will be disposed to engage in the work of effecting those changes needed for any thorough assimilation or any positive uprooting of Slavery, if they are to be left unsupported to reap their reward from the slave power, reinstated as dominant in either States or nation. Hut it is to be remarked in this connection, that the General Goverumeut has assumed the attitude of awaiting a full and further signification of the popular thought, and this can only be elicited by the friends of freedom throughout the slave Stutes making such appeal to the people oftho nation as will rivet their at-teutiou upou tho greatdaiigersimpeuding, arouso them to manifestions of sympathy with the cause of human liberty, and leave no room for any doubt as to the course that should bo pursued by rulers solicitous to reflect their will. For Jhe(se reasons; for the promotion of a more cordial understanding betweeu those Who eoncur in the necessity of adopt- ing freedom policies; for the more effective initiation of local State organizations to accomplish the work of emancipation; and for such mutual interchange ofopmioosand experiences as may make tho teachings of the past profit in the guidance of the present, an invitation is hereby extended to the friends of freedom residing in all the slave Stutes, to meet in mass convention at the city of Louisville, Kchtucky, on the 8th day of January next coming. Those favorable to such assemblages are requested to take measures in tbeir respective district's for an ttindaac8 that will teeure tkew reprcretifafien. Newspapers apuroving this mill nru ic quested to give it circubiiiou. Respectfully submit'oW, H. Gnti Broo, Fred Mi'i neh, H. T. Blow. J. W. Mcl'lnr.,, Entile BoiotiuUi, S H V-yl I'.eh. l.o.ili. ('. I!. -, S..uf K. J;,Ih... !.-:,. of M.oiii i. Ftwn th Nfw IV k Tim"f ih II h. I Gcu McClellan and thePeui.syhau'a! Election. ! Ceii. McClellan, who was so" slow in tbei military field, is rather faster iu the political. We have at last a da,sh fr.io Inu - a regular slAp-dash. At hi retreat in N' v Jersey, ho learns iroiti a '-reliable genii,- man" that there is danger thai the Copper- j head line will not come ui to the neralcb: aud ho no sooner hears .Ml ihau besnced. i a, he never -net before, to the" t cue. The li''liluiii could vv' outstrip him; or, if it did. it was oiilv lo c.irrv llo. i im;ni4-;; luai vieu. ;ueiKuau whs ohj 24 , Ilt'iC heliinu, ami that ' lie K-gaius tliej t,!fiti,ill nt .liiil.'n Witi.ilu- ir.l ,U 1 1 f It .-rill r .. i-i Mii-i i ' ol (Jukaiuauga, lor I do uot fear the is-ol Pennsylvania, to be called tor by tlu-j ,. .,, , , , . . ... ., .-, 1 " -dy great regret will he th break- interoiUol the nation, lliu tidimrs'. ; , , . . . ,,..,,,,.. , " 1 1 g uu ot tli glonoan associations formed ruached Philadelphia jast iio the sun was ' . , .... ... , ,. , , , .. , ,, .,, ,. I iiliei' so long scmee in the Army ol the descending beyond the Schuylkill, ihir , , , , , . . ,. ,, , , , .ii ! Cumberland, auu the Lidding farewell (o cell hours and three quarters by the li.X I ,. ... , , . ,. . , ... , 1 ' , . , 1 1 to gallant ouiui-rs and soiuiers of this watches, betore the op-suing of the fuht 1 The shades of uight, wo understuu J, were i . ,. , on will have new Corps and division used to the best purpose, in workiug the . 1 ,- . ,, , ' ci.iiim-iii'Jers; to tlicm, us you have at all uirt. lhe engaj' snieut commcm-ed with 1 . . sunrise uud lasted through the day, with tHrrililo rfTiM-t w li,--ir ni.ii flu. l,lliiu,-i-, 1 ' ,. i , ,.7 , , ,, , . ' of Judge oodword. lhcv are routed. II : is said, horse, foot and ilr.igoon. Gen. McClellan, it is expected, will reach th. field in person to-morrow. It is,indeed, somewhat singul ar that Gen McClellan, who has been sostoieul regard ing bis military credit, should be so exceedingly sensitive ''oueerniug his political repute. He submits uuiiioVeJ to tin? sevsreut, uud. if we are to believe liislK in'. the talsest statemeiitsroucerniiig li s military career, without making a sign: vH it is uo sooner given out that he is in favr uf the re-election of a Governor who is a friend of the Adiuinisiralion, than he is off like a shot lo pm d wu the lie. ft would seem that the General can stand any tiling but the suspicion that he has parted com-puny with the Copperheads. It is n-.i,i-fciitly ii n object of prime Concern with him to keep himself identified, as ii.iniili.ifh as possible, un lliemeu wlioareitot war , ring against the rebels, put quarrelling' WaMUVHon, Oct. IS llie following with theconstitutedauthnrititisot'thcG.iw jiacopy of u letler froth Mr. Masou to eminent. Of all the score or two of Maj r j J'H Pavi., and was found among the in-Gcncrals of the United States, in sen ice. i teicepted t orrefpoiideiico of the latter It there probably is not another one, whoi 1 plainly .-hows the treasonable purpose of whatever his former politic! associations, ! the writer at 'he time : would have treated as a slan lei to be pub liely repelled, a story that he was for sua taining the Executive which giiTehitn hi commission. Major-Gen. McClellan has this pecular distinction. Whether it be owing to resentment at his displacement from the command of tho Army of the' ready agreed to tho rendetvous at Ral-Potomac, or to an ambiii in of being made ' igb, and others will whisper this iu your as has been talked of,au Auti-Adm ui-dra-! most private ear. lion caudidate for the Presidency .wo shall I Uo ays further that he had officially offer uo conjecture. But we do say that j requested you to exchange with Virginia it is not conduct which would become a ! on fair It run of difference, percussion fer truo soldier iu his his peculiar posiiiou. j lliot muskets. I don't kuow the usage or M ,,, I poer of the Department iu euch cates, Vallandlgham's General Order l On tne Ueieal. UEMORATS OF Onio: You hac Liiu beaten by what means it is idle now to iuquire. It it enough that wbil tens et thousands of soldiers were scut or kept within your State, or held inactive in camp elsewhere, lo vote against you, the Con federate enemy were marching upon the capital of your count, y. You were beaton; but a nobler fiht foi constitutional liberty and free poj. ular gov crnment never was fought b. any people And your uncouquerable firmucss aud courage, even in the midst of armed military force, secured you thesejtirt of human righ(s free speech und free (mlhii. The conspiracy of the full of May ti ll be fore you Be uot discouraged; dt-pair not of the Republic, Maiutaiu your rights; stand firm to your position; ucvu yuld up ymir principles or your organization. Listen uot to any w ho would bav- you lower your standard in tho hour oi defeat. No mellowim.' ol'vour ritiiii'm.s upon auy question, even of poky, will avail anything to conciliate your pnlitical foes. They demand nothing than an absolute surrender ot your principles and your organiiation. Moreover, if there be any hope for the Constitution or liberty, it is ID the Pemocratie party alorte; and your fellow citizeus, in a little while longer wil see it. Time and events will force it tporl all, except those onlv who nrofit bv the calamities of their countiy. I thank you, one and all, for Tour itov pathlti and your euffrsgej. Be assured that though still in exile for no offense but my politic! opinions and the free ex- preseioa of them to yon in peaeetble ahlia assembly, you will find Bio er steadfast m turn or-miens, soj true to the ConMi- t lion and to the Stale aud country of my ' I -it Wi. - - ; f. 1. VaLLANUOH ANf . U i.i,uii, C. W. (to. 11, '03. Hijor-lifu. tfrVouk'a farttdltoihe TfffAtl' ih Army Carps, I.' pon t:4liii leave of the 2im.Ii Army i.'i.rp-. M.tj.-i (i.-io-rul McCook addrassed lio-tii Hi follows; Hi athju's 2Ttii Army Com-, ( ( HAnA.sooiiA, Tknn., Oct. (5, f G KM. HAL OK PER NO. 32. OJfictr (ivl SoiJiiri of the 'J-Qth Army Cttrpt: Au order will soon reach yoia roiiBolidt-ling your gallmit rcgimenis, brigades and divisions with the "1st Corps With that . rder I am rolirvcd from commuud iu this Jirul',l-"i nt IuoWp. llld""ia tKtfe tuWir Ufure 8 C0Urt T inquii j. After being relieved from command, I ' couul ask; no orraic-r lutor ol the ar Dt' , . , ... ; p. inn. mi uiaa a iiiorougu investigation OI 1 my (."loiuul during the two memorable days wines tu loo, yiuul obedience. Uive tucm id'.ihioual vvidkuieof viur discspline, ce.-l and patriotism iu our cause; Btufncver lay 1 ......... down your arms mini this unho.y febeliioli is i riisbi d, the I'uion peimaneutly restored an,', u ea.'f- secured thut will allow you to return to your homes aud firesides. You have beeu slandered and maligned by news scribblers, who, unfortunate, in our country; nioul ! the public mind. Offi-i cial uports will do you justice before the world. j I iti.it ii my thanks to every officer and soldier of t'C eorpi, for his gallantry in I action and his beany co-operation and de-toiii.n to ,iuiy. nil this I leave you. and my earnest prayer ev.ir shall be, that God way prosper you as a corps, and as individuals, and ever give you victory vhou struggling lor your n.iiion and glorious flag. A. Del). Mi-m.'ihik, Maj.-Oeu. )lus u to Davis in 1S50. Sh.m.,Va.. nkau WisciirsTrn, 1 September 30, 18G0. j My Ihor Sir : 1 have a letter from ( iov. WUe of the 27th, full of spirit. He says the Governors of North Carolina, South Carolina, aud Louisiana hare al- ful 11 " "V6 evcu y ei con- Miiirimn, uq'timi jauwnt bcvbub. Was dure uotim appropriation at the 1 1st. Kcsion tor converting flint into por oussiou anus.' if so, would it not furnish good reason for extending such facilities to the Ctaies. Virginia probxb'y has more firms thj the oiher Southern States, snd would divide iu case of ueed. In a letter yesterday to a cjmmittce in South l'tti'ol;na, I gave it as my judgment, iu the event of Irenieut's election, the South bbould not pause hut proceed at once to immediate, absolute and eternal eparulion, so I urn a caudidate for the first hi Iter. Wisu says his accounts from Philadelphia are cheering for Old Buck in Pennsylvania. I hope tbey may uot be delusive. (Si'ued;, J.M.MASON. (.Old. A m m who !s furnitbed frith argument f.om 1 ho mint will vouvince his antagonist much sootier that cus ho draws them from, reason and philosophy. Gold is 1 wouderlul clearer d' th understanding ii d alt- every doubt aud n-ruple iu au ius'atit, a- C 'liimcHiaies itself lo tlio mean-Oct capacituv. eiiuueunes, the loud and cluuiirru'. and brings over the most obstiuHie nj inflexible. l'Lilip of Macedou wi a mao of most iuvincible reason this wuy. He refuted by it all the wisilom of Athens, confounded their statesmen, struct their tirstors dumb, and at length jirguoJ thctti out of all their liberties. " -- . ... - Borrne, s german writer c bmperes the different stages in (he lives of woman to milk butter snd cheese. 'A girl,' he says 'is like milk, s wnaieu like hotter, tod sa aU ..... la. -v -11 .1-- . . excellent in their war., ' . .: ' j. 1 tnTn'W r